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NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Where can you get more vitamin D?






2. Fats can lead to some medical problems






3. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






4. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






5. When does BMR decrease?






6. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






7. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






8. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






9. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






10. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






11. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






12. What type of people need extra protein?






13. When does BMR increase?






14. What function is vitamin D?






15. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






16. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






17. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






18. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






19. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






20. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






21. What is normal BMI?






22. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






23. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






24. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






25. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






26. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






27. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






28. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






29. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






30. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






31. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






32. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






33. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






34. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






35. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






36. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






37. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






38. What is the function of vitamin E?






39. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






40. Sources of fats






41. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






42. The higher the BMR a client has --






43. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






44. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






45. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






46. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






47. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






48. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






49. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






50. What does DASH stand for?